api testing with javascript workshop

#testing4good

In this workshop you will learn how to do automated API testing with Cypress 10.

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You will learn

Common HTTP methods

How to execute web requests

Basic and advanced API automation

And maybe more...

Prerequisites

1. Basic understanding of JavaScript

Technologies you will use

1. Cypress 10
2. JavaScript
3. Gitpod

Table Of Contents

• Setup
• API Testing
• Authentication w/ APIs
• Conclusions

Testing for Good

#testing4good

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Your Instructor: Nikolay Advolodkin

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• Im the founder of Ultimate QA
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Our TA!

Setup

The safest way to ensure that we all have the same environment is for us to use Gitpod for our workshop. However, if you are comfortable doing so, you are free to setup the environment on your machine as well.

Sign up for accounts

1. Free Sauce account

Gitpod setup

Gitpod lets you run an entire Dev environment from a browser! You can use this approach if you don't know how to setup a local environment.

1. You should already have started a Gitpod setup in a new tab. The environment setup happens automaticatically. If you didn't, do that now by clicking the button to open in a new tab

A new tab should open with a Cypress dashboard

Run tests

Run sanity tests

npm run test:sanity

Environment setup is complete if tests passed

Report any issues to Nikolay Advolodkin

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Local setup

1. Install Node LTS

1. Use NVM for this installation by following instructions
   • It should be just a single command to run in our terminal
     • !Don't forget to restart your terminal!
   • After installation, confirm install with nvm --version
2. Intall Node 16 with nvm install --lts

• Confirm node installation with node --version and seeing v16.x or similar
• Confirm NVM is set to 16 for default by running the following commands:

nvm list #will show all versions
nvm use 16 #to use 16
nvm alias default 16.14.x #to set it to the default

2.Clone and fork the repo

1. Sign up for a free Github account
2. Fork this respository

• Make sure you are logged into Github
• click the Fork in the upper right of the Github.

3. Clone your fork of the repository to your machine. Must have Git installed

git clone URL_OF_YOUR_FORK

4. Navigate to the directory of where you cloned your repo

cd YOUR_FORK_DIR/cypress-api-testing-22
npm install

4.Follow the rest of the setup instructions

Follow the same steps for running tests.

5.Have an IDE installed that can handle NodeJS/JS (We will use VSCode)

Congratulations, your local environment is ready!

Prizes

1. A lucky winner gets a backpack at the end
2. Best student prize
3. A lego set after TfG for someone that fills out feedback form

Rules of engagement

• I'm here to Serve You, your education, and your experience
• Be kind, respectful, no judgment
• Have fun